Foundations

• Carnegie Foundation
  437 Madison Avenue
  New York, NY 10022
  Tel: (212) 371–3200
  Fax: (212) 754–4073
  www.carnegie.org

  Focuses on education and healthy development of children and youth. Significant support to development and evaluation of parenting programs. Began Starting Points initiative in 1994.

• Annie E. Casey Foundation
  701 St. Paul Street
  Baltimore, MD 21202
  Tel: (410) 547–6600
  Fax: (410) 547–6624
  E-mail:webmail@aecf.org
  www.aecf.org
  

  Funds work on building knowledge base for system reform and community change, demonstrates reform initiatives, promotes accountability and innovation. Focuses on families, children, foster care, and mental health of urban children. Sponsors KIDSCOUNT initiative to track status of children. Funded many fatherhood initiatives.

• The Commonwealth Fund
  One East 75th Street
  New York, NY 10021–2692
  Tel: (212) 535–0400
  Fax: (212) 606–3500
  www.cmwf.org

  Funds Healthy Steps for Children, a program to develop partnerships with community foundations to support programs in each of their cities. Goal is to significantly impact outcomes for 100 families per site. Published The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Parents with Young Children in 1996.

• Ford Foundation
  320 East 43rd Street
  New York, NY 10017
  Tel: (212) 573–5000
  Fax: (212 599–4584
  www.fordfound.org

  Human Development program area focuses on helping individuals, families, and communities gain social and economic opportunity and human dignity. Grants focus on reproductive health including adolescent sexuality and AIDS prevention, early childhood and youth development, family support, welfare reform, and job-training programs. Supporter of Family Resource Coalition, AVANCE, and various parenting program evaluations.

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  P.O. Box 2316
  Princeton, NJ 08543–2316
  Tel: (609) 452–8701
  www.rwjf.org

  Three main areas of interest: access to health care, kids with disabilities, and substance abuse prevention. Has over 75 programs currently active. Supports surveillance of youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; interactive computer-based prevention programs; and research on health and safety of urban youth.

• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
  One Michigan Avenue East
  Battle Creek, MI 49017–4058
  Tel: (616) 968–1611
  www.WKKF.org

  Interested in comprehensive approaches to youth. Initiative called Families for Kids seeks to take on State welfare systems by promoting the child's viewpoint in considering the issues of foster care and family separation.

• A. L. Mailman Foundation
  707 Westchester Avenue
  White Plains, NY 10604
  Tel: (914) 681–4448
  www.mailman.org

  Committed to ideals of the family resource movement. Continuing assistance in training of family support workers. Evaluation, refinement, and dissemination of adaptable and sustainable models for parent leadership development, family-friendly service integration, and community building. In 1977 funded Center for Family Support at Bank Street College. Helped fund Family Resource Coalition "best practices" project.

• The Pew Charitable Trusts
  2005 Market Street, Suite 1700
  Philadelphia, PA 19103
  Tel: (215) 575–9050
  www.pewtrusts.org

  Supports nonprofit activities in areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy, and religion. In 1997, with more than $4.5 billion in assets, the Trusts awarded $181 million to 320 nonprofit organizations. Recently published See How We Grow: A Report on the Status of Parenting Education in the US. Full text version available from http://www.pewtrusts.org/ideas/ideas_item.cfm?content_item_id=411&content_type_id=17

Parenting IS Prevention Training of Trainers Workshop, 1998	SAMHSA

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